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... become a real doubter in many points of our religious doctrine , I found this method safest for myself and very embar- rassing to those against whom I used it ; therefore I took a delight in it , practised it continually , and grew very ...
... become a real doubter in many points of our religious doctrine , I found this method safest for myself and very embar- rassing to those against whom I used it ; therefore I took a delight in it , practised it continually , and grew very ...
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... become trouble- some to govern , because the multiplicity of their affairs leaves no time for fiddling . 1. In the first place , gentlemen , you are to consider , that a great empire , like a great cake , is most easily diminished at ...
... become trouble- some to govern , because the multiplicity of their affairs leaves no time for fiddling . 1. In the first place , gentlemen , you are to consider , that a great empire , like a great cake , is most easily diminished at ...
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... become more disaffected , and at length desperate . 7. When such governors have crammed their coffers , and made them- selves so odious to the people that they can no longer remain among them , with safety to their persons , recall and ...
... become more disaffected , and at length desperate . 7. When such governors have crammed their coffers , and made them- selves so odious to the people that they can no longer remain among them , with safety to their persons , recall and ...
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... become corrupt , like those of other and older bushes , and consequently as wretched . And in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long , and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name , they say ...
... become corrupt , like those of other and older bushes , and consequently as wretched . And in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long , and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name , they say ...
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... becoming than that of manifesting , by some public expression or token , that it is to their instruction and example we ascribe the merit of those actions . But the absurdity of descending honors is not a mere 1765-87 ] 37 BENJAMIN ...
... becoming than that of manifesting , by some public expression or token , that it is to their instruction and example we ascribe the merit of those actions . But the absurdity of descending honors is not a mere 1765-87 ] 37 BENJAMIN ...
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Page 165 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 284 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 219 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 167 - Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 163 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Page 166 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Page 166 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. THIS spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 18 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost"; being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!
Page 212 - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 163 - Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.