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"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
"The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs " the word is not too extreme " to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
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