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“A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.”
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“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
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“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
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“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
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“It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead”
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“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance”
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“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
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“There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.”
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“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another”
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“No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.”
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