The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the...

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the...

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are...

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are...

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies...

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies...

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only...

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only...

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian...

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian...

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity...

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity...

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

A government of laws, and not of men.

A government of laws, and not of men.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution...

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution...

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to...

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to...

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in...

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in...

Politics are the divine science, after all

Politics are the divine science, after all

I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely...

I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely...

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of...

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of...

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate...

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are...

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are...

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian...

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian...

Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and...

Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and...

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war...

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war...