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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Bless Effect Internal Itself Liberty Mutable Policy
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Danger Extensive Federal Government Important Most Operation Time War
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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