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States Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
- I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the…
- The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,…
- All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more…
- If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest…
- It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of…
- The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have…
- The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole…
- The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:…
- There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon…
- Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of…
- It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur