"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."

Behavior, Cities, Life, Darkness

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"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."

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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

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"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

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