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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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Life
Man
Murder
Security
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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Power
Tax
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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Conviction
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Virtue
Country
Liberty
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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Love
God
Liberty
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
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Power
People
Wisdom begins at the end.
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Wisdom
End
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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Civilization
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Men
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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Government
Laws
May
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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Being
Man
Wonders
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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People
Liberty
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
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Thought
Mind
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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Truth
Nothing
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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Confession
Suicide