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

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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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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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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