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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.
• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and…

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