Fixed Truth Quotes by Oliver Ellsworth

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Oliver Ellsworth has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and…
• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
• The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible…
• Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates…
• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and…
• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty.…
• The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy…
• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.…
• Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array…
• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

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