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- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without…
- We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with…
- Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate…
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
- The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a…
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .…
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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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