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- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- 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…
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- 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…
- It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no…
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
- Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
- 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…
- If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
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