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- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or…
- In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government…
- The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been…
- Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
- Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the…
- It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in…
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…
- Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in…
- It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was…
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