"What worries you, masters you."
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"All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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"Who lies for you will lie against you."
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"The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves."
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"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other."
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"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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"Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins."
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"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him."
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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
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"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man."
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"Revolt is the right of the people"
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"I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else."
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
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