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Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is real...more

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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain deg...more

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...more