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- The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all…
- Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
- Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but…
- As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive…
- Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is…
- There is no treasure but Truth, there is no Truth but Wisdom. There is no Wisdom, but from Learning, and Learning is won by the…
- Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. We claim them from a higher source. from the King of kings, and Lord…
- Some states have lost their liberty, by particular accidents: but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue. A people is travelling fast…
- If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes, under…
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