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p^cher de la voir, chaqu'un cherche a priver cette 

 nation d'un avantage qu'elle n'a pas pris, pour ainsi 

 dire, que par surprise." (Montesquieu.) 



Decline and Fall. 



No incidental events can make a nation little, while 

 the principles remain in vigour that made it great. 



Religious Liberty. 



Religious liberty is like civil liberty, not immunity 

 from restraint, but the being restrained by no law, 

 but what is in a superior degree conducive to the 

 public welfare. 



