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Warfare Quotes
The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of ever...
Injustice Quotes
An inquiry into the constitutional errors in the English form of government is at this time highly necessary; for as we are never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continu...
Patriotism Quotes
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. (I.4)
Passivity Quotes
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always...
Race Quotes
[The] quiet and rural lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. (2.3)
Society and Class Quotes
Secondly—the remains of the aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers. (1.12)
Religion Quotes
As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty, as de...
Freedom Quotes
That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. (1.17)