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- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them…
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on…
- I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two…
- If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
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