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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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