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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.