“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.”
“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.”
“I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.”
“Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”
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