Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

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It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

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If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

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Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

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Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

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Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

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