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We have the greatest opportunity the world... |
If a nation expects to be ignorant... |
When a man assumes a public trust,... |
We must not let our rulers load... |
We hold these truths to be self-evident,... |
It is a great importance to set... |
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution... |
[My views on Christianity] are the result... |
The concentrating [of powers] in the same... |
We hold these truths to be self-evident,... |
What country before ever existed a century... |
There is no act, however virtuous, for which... |
I could think of no worse example... |
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide... |
To lay taxes to provide for the general... |
Above all things I hope the education... |
In matters of principle, stand like a rock;... |
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections... |
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty... |
Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men,... |
Believing with you that religion is a matter... |
It is left, therefore, to the juries,... |
Our legislators are not sufficiently appraised of the rightful... |
He who permits himself to tell a lie... |
If a Nation expects to be ignorant... |
Delay is preferable to error. |
I think we have more machinery of government... |
By a declaration of rights, I mean... |
I, however, place economy among the first... |
I cannot live without books. |
I am really mortified to be told... |
The system of banking we have both... |
I know no safe depository of the ultimate... |
A bill of rights is what the people... |
[N]othing can be more opposed [to American... |
We shall have our follies without doubt.... |
I know it will give great offence... |
What country can preserve its liberties, if... |
Laws are made for men of ordinary... |
Whenever the people are well informed, they... |
It had become an universal and almost... |
I never submitted the whole system of my... |
Parties are... censors of the conduct of each... |
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty... |
[I]f we can but prevent the government
from... |
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by... |
May [the Declaration of Independence] be to the world,... |
When the representative body have lost the confidence... |
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves... |
The two enemies of the people are... |
