John Dickinson Quotes

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• We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,…
• Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
• The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all…
• Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
• The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger…
• Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but…
• As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive…
• What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only…
• Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet…
• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have…
• Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
• If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this…
• Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
• What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
• Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is…
• There is no treasure but Truth, there is no Truth but Wisdom. There is no Wisdom, but from Learning, and Learning is won by the…
• Let the Angels lead me to you, if only they fly in this land.
• Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. We claim them from a higher source. from the King of kings, and Lord…
• Some states have lost their liberty, by particular accidents: but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue. A people is travelling fast…

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