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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
— John Adams
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.
— Sukarno
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its…
— Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
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There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long…
— Joseph Story
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Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional
— Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature…
— John Adams
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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