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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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