The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
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Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewiThomas Paine
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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