Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention (Monday, 9 June 1788), as contained in The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3, ed. Jonathan Elliot, published by the editor (1836), p. 170
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Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
As quoted in The Debates in the Several States Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution also known as Elliot's Debates, Jonathan Elliot, edit. (1941) J. B. Lippincott Co., pp. 168-169, originally published in 1836
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James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
§ 8
1780s, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)
Context: What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788).
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“One of them, whose bent it was to harm the highest with lowly venom nor ever to bear with a willing neck the rulers placed over him.”
Aliquis, cui mens humili laesisse veneno
summa nec impositos umquam ceruice volenti
ferre duces.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 171
Charles E. Nash (1844–1913) American politician
As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): p. 3,669 <br class="br">Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Fisher Ames (1758–1808) American politician
American Literature (1805), in [Ames, Fisher, and Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames: with a selection from his speeches and correspondence, 1854, Little, Brown, 441, Boston, https://books.google.com/books?id=fjoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA441#v=onepage]
