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- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- 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…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as…
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
- We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
- Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,…
- Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings…
- 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…
- How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
- The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations…
- The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the…
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