A Worthy Quote

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"His Example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue
to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age,
but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read."

-- John Adams (message to the U.S. Senate, 19 December 1799)

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"Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary
for the support of societies as natural affection is for the
support of families."

-- Benjamin Rush (letter to His Fellow Contrymen: On Patriotism,
20 October 1773)

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"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our
paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the
dispensation of the public moneys."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Shelton Gilliam, 19 June 1808)

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"I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the
storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below
it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow
laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants...I have
no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Adams, 28 December 1796)

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"In my judgement it is not only ripe for the measure, but in
danger of becoming rotten for the want of it."

-- John Witherspoon (debate over the Declaration, July 1776)

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"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce
and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of
reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate
such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God
Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift,
and voluntarily become a slave."

-- John Adams (Rights of the Colonists, 1772)

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"That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary
for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always
thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being
of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage
and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick
Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater
Respect among the common People."

-- Benjamin Franklin (On that Odd Letter of the Drum, April 1730)

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"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its
authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,
whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have
formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the
Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify."

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 33, 3 January 1788)

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"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not
always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance,
how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick,
to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds
even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the
wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be
encouraged by the Government. For no people will tamely surrender
their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is
diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are
universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will
sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

-- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 261.

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"Statesmen by dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it
is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles
upon which Freedom can securely stand....The only foundation
of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be
inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it
now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government,
but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty."

-- John Adams (letter to Zabdiel Adams, 21 June 1776)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, pg. 371.

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"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a
noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and
blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and
faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity
all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of
liberty, property, religion, and independence."

-- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)

Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 718.

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"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society,
publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the
great Creator and Preserver of the universe.  And no subject shall
be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty, or estate,
for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the
dictates of his own conscience; or for his religion profession
of sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace,
or obstruct others in their religious worship...."

Massachusetts Bill of Rights, Part the First, 1780

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1

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"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better
for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been
the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have
been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson, on Jefferson, in, 1800)

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"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general
government is not to be charged with the whole power of making
and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain
enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic,
but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions
of any."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 14, 30 November 1787)

Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 14

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