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- Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to…
- If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven…
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
- I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it…
- The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have…
- Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
- The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- 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…
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a…
- 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…
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
- I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
- The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which…
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