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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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