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We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in…
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and…
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…
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The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security…
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Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments…
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…
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What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is…
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…
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Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
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If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never…
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's…
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Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
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I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist.…
— John F. Kerry
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Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things…
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The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.
— Tom Hiddleston
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
— Plato
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There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous,…
— William Jennings Bryan
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