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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 toward others, and…
- Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care…
- It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…
- Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or…
- The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are…
- The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And…
- All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other…
- A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are…
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only…
- No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it…
- A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
- A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one…
- If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for…
- The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
- A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man,…
- A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make…
- It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what…
- The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights,…
- A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the…
- All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more…
- Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the…
- Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts…
- A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential…
- The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle