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- If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
- I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
- One insult pocketed soon produces another.
- Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at…
- Never use two words when one will do.
- We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive…
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
- Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep…
- Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
- Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
- 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…
- That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle…
- 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,…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then…
- It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
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