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- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
- In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of…
- The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
- Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
- This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
- Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue;…
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
- It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not…
- Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment…
- The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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