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The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole…

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never…
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who… — Pope John Paul II
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented… — Rock Hudson
I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that… — Frederick Wiseman
A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true… — John Powell
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family… — Wendell Berry
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson
Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I… — John Bunyan
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if… — Phyllis Schlafly
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act… — Lysander Spooner

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