Quote #72

In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]...This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

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  1. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refi…
  2. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the me…
  3. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
  4. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
  5. Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
  6. The march of the human mind is slow.
  7. The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation i…
  8. Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

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