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Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.
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It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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