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“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
“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.”
“Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent an...”
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ”
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have...”
“Measures are too often decided, not accordÂing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be a...”
