"The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere."
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"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
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"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."
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"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."
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"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"
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"Let justice be done though the heavens should fall."
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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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"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship."
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"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
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"The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."
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"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
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"If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence."
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"Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it."
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"What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine."
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"America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs."
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)"
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"All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue."
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"Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices."
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