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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting...

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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds...

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most...

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The happiness of society is the end of government.

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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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