"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Government, People, Constitution, Religious

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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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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."

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