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- If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
- We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant…
- Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may…
- The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State.
- The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,…
- Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other…
- A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will…
- The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of…
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
- A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
- Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term…
- [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of…
- [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which…
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