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- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
- Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
- Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to…
- 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…
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts…
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
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