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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…

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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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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest… — Robert Collier
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. — Alfred de Musset
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like… — Jean Paul
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a… — Gilbert Murray
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the… — Unknown Author
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it… — Pope Leo XII
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — Augustus Hare
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of… — Adam Clarke
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well… — Edward McKendree Bounds

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