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“With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”

“When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.”

“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.”

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”