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Richard Henry Lee has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
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A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
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It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by…
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It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
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To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for…
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Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty…
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The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia…
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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...
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The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is…
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Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially…
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free…
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Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us…
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
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Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary…
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The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is…
— Richard Henry Lee
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of…
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle…
— William Penn
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Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…
— George Orwell
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him…
— William Godwin
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