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- When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its…
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can…
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
- We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they…
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
- I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of…
- The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
- The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to…
- Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
- No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case…
- The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor…
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