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• From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those…
• Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
• [T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and…
• [R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are…
• In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…
• Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
• It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.
• It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political…
• If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must…

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