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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of…

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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own…
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause…
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,…
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the…
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and…
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of…
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be…

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of… — Mercy Otis Warren
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that… — Unknown Author
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Unknown Author
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the… — Freeman Tilden
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his… — Oscar Wilde
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May

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