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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.