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- From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
- That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
- How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of…
- No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what…
- The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats…
- If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
- I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of…
- Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to…
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- All men are created equal.
- Of all exercises, walking is the best.
- All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the…
- The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial…
- The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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