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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…
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and…
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…
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The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security…
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Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments…
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…
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What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is…
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…
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Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
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If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never…
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…
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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and…
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s…
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Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
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And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and…
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Sometimes we see things that arent meant to be seen. Sometimes things arent always as they seem. Sometimes we need someone to…
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For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as…
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