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We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in…
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and…
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…
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The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security…
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Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments…
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…
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What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is…
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…
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Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
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If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never…
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I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your…
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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
— Seneca the Younger
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our…
— Jefferson Davis
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in…
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe…
— Frederick Douglass
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Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of…
— John Quincy Adams
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways…
— George Eliot
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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
— Alexander Crummell
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We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than…
— Matt Shea
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