Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
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