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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or… — Benjamin Franklin
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case… — Thomas Paine
I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from… — Terry Pratchett
Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel… — Elliott Smith
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… — John Dickinson
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. — Cliff Stearns
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness… — Margaret Sanger
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands… — Margaret Sanger
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic.… — Karl Marx
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death… — Immanuel Kant
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. — Unknown Author
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors. — George H. W. Bush

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