"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."

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“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

“Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

“There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.”

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