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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
A public debt is a public curse.
Power is of an encroaching nature.
Despotism can only exist in darkness.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
An oath-the strongest of religious ties.
Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.
Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.
The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
