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- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course…
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
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