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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never…
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

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Everything is self-evident. — Rene Descartes
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things… — Jonathan Franzen
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is… — Ernestine Rose
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other… — Lysander Spooner
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact… — Ernest Lawrence
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. — Anthony Trollope
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and… — Dag Hammarskjold
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. — William Hazlitt

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