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- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.
- Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
- Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
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