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• Extremes are dangerous.
• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,…
• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their…
• But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
• People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found…
• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,…
• Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
• All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office,…
• Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in…
• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
• It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every…
• It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and…

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