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- I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
- Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
- I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for…
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,…
- The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two…
- I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
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