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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

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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.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

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.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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