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Suggest Revision: During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
 
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Suggest Revision: The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state
 
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Suggest Revision: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy
 
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Suggest Revision: Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves
 
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Suggest Revision: The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
 
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Suggest Revision: As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights
 
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Suggest Revision: The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right
 
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Suggest Revision: There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong
 
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Suggest Revision: The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure
 
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Suggest Revision: Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
 
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