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- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
- Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
- With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
- Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
- By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
- It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
- In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked…
- I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
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