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From Quotes by Joseph Story
- [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of…
- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
- So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
- There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from…
- At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if…
- It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was…
- Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because…
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