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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
• Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
• The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
• [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
• The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
• Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
• We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
• The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
• I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
• I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
• Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

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