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

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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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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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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and ...more

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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that ...more