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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 religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man…
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
- We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised…
- The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of…
- But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according…
- 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…
- As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- 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…
- Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that…
- It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been…
- The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
- What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
- Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
- No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
- The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- 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…
- [Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.
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