"As Congress is now to legislate for our……" — John Dickinson
"As Congress is now to legislate for our extensive territory lately acquired, I pray to Heaven that they may build up the system of the government on the broad, strong, and sound principles of freedom. Curse not the inhabitants of those regions, and of the United States in general with a permission to introduce bondage [lavery."
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John Dickinson
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31 Quotes by John Dickinson
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We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be…
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in…
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of…
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from…
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The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an…
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Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend…
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a…
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What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments.…
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the…
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this…
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Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
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If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we…
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