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Samuel Adams Quote – The Right To Freedom Is A Gift From God

By Tina Didreckson On March 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Samuel Adams

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Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners

By Steve Straub On October 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Founding Documents, Thomas Jefferson

It is difficult to determine on the standard by which the manners of a nation may be tried, whether catholic, or particular. It is more difficult for a native to bring to that standard the manners of his own nation, familiarized to him by habit.

There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the [...]

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Patrick Henry, Human nature will never part from power

By Steve Straub On July 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Patrick Henry

Human nature never will part from power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power, from one end of the globe to another: you will find none. Nine tenths of our fellowmen have been, and are now, depressed by the most intolerable slavery, in the different parts of the world, because the strong [...]

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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier (24 January 1786)

By Steve Straub On June 8, 2011 · 15 Comments · In Thomas Jefferson

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he [...]

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Charles de Montesqueiu, The Spirit of the Laws, XV Ch.1 1748

By Steve Straub On May 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Montesquieu

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. It is neither useful to the master nor to the slave; not to the [...]

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