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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these lib...more

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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that ...more

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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care o...more

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I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be sa...more

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the U...more

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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

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If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every governmen...more

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He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.

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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quota...more