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The right of voting for repres...

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

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The end of all political assoc...

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

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A government of our own is our...

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

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Ye that dare oppose, not only ...

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

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Beware the greedy hand of gove...

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

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Whatever has a tendency to pro...

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

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A man may write himself out of...

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

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It is not the nature of avaric...

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

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Civilization, or that which is...

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

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Commerce is no other than the ...

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

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We feel something like respect...

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

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Public credit is suspicion asl...

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

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The nearer any disease approac...

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

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The animals to whom nature has...

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

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The duty of man is not a wilde...

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

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It is from our enemies that we...

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

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Mutual fear is a principal lin...

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

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There is a natural firmness in...

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

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There is something in meanness...

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

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Mystery is the antagonist of t...

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

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