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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but…
— Thomas Brooks
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if…
— Joseph Story
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The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable…
— Ron Paul
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith…
— William James
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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
— William James
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty.…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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