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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger…
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break…
- The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
- As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in…
- Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics
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