“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
