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- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
- We might have been a free and great people together.
- SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to…
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- 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…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- 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,…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
- One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I…
- If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
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