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- There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
- All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be…
- The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to…
- Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this…
- The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And…
- Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
- All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other…
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only…
- The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,…
- No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it…
- Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever…
- A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
- All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In…
- Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute…
- All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
- If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for…
- Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them…
- A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make…
- A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the…
- All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more…
- All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to…
- If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a…
- If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle