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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…
- And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are…
- The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to…
- 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…
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support,…
- 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…
- There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils,…
- A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
- The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
- A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
- 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…
- Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
- 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,…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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