“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
