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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
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Rapid erasure of the blot on our Republican character.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
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A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious.
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The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
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One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge…is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.
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To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.
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But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
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Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
March 16, 1751
Died:
June 28, 1836
(aged 85)
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