In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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