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A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
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He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.
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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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A government of laws, and not of men
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Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
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The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
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Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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