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• We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in…
• Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
• The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and…
• Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…
• The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security…
• Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments…
• As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…
• What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is…
• Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…
• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…
• Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
• If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never…

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