"When mankind first saw the necessity of government,……" — Thomas Clarkson
"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling."
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Thomas Clarkson
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8 Quotes by Thomas Clarkson
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them,…
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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the…
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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that…
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be…
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination…
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency…
— Bob Dole
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Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
— Joseph Parker
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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