“I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.”
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“I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.”
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“The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.”
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“One country, one constitution, one destiny.”
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“The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.”
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“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
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“We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.”
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“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
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“We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.”
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“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”
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“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.”
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“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.”
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