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- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
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