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Oliver Ellsworth has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and…
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
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The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible…
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates…
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and…
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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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.…
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy…
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.…
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array…
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the…
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It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
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What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will…
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates…
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O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and…
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it…
— Charles Hodge
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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince,…
— Giraldus Cambrensis
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It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. Our clerics neither evangelize…
— John Wycliffe
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