“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
