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- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and…
- No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed…
- In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value…
- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for…
- Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the…
- The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.…
- ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant…
- The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce…
- May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
- In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine