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Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violat...more

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

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I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much mis...more

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Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting ...more

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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It...more

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these lib...more

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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.