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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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 no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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