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A strong body makes the mind strong.
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Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
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Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
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The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
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For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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