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... freeman , in holding up to public execra- tion tyranny , in whatever form it may appear . I will not degrade myself by vituperative , scurrilous , and vulgar abuse , which some of our opponents have descended to use ; nor will your ...
... freeman , in holding up to public execra- tion tyranny , in whatever form it may appear . I will not degrade myself by vituperative , scurrilous , and vulgar abuse , which some of our opponents have descended to use ; nor will your ...
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... freemen of this nation a burden of taxation , in the form of a Tariff Law , which , to the eternal disgrace of our Republic , has been tacitly borne , without making an efficient struggle to shake it off . It is time for the people to ...
... freemen of this nation a burden of taxation , in the form of a Tariff Law , which , to the eternal disgrace of our Republic , has been tacitly borne , without making an efficient struggle to shake it off . It is time for the people to ...
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... freemen , where liberty is sacred , and where the life and property of the citizen is under the safeguard of equitable laws . Let us rejoice that the period is not very distant , when every man in the United States , however humble his ...
... freemen , where liberty is sacred , and where the life and property of the citizen is under the safeguard of equitable laws . Let us rejoice that the period is not very distant , when every man in the United States , however humble his ...
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... freemen , and must yield as the passive slaves of a system which will inevitably render them poor and despicable . Half - informed statesmen frequently betray gross ignorance in attempt- ing to legislate about what they do not ...
... freemen , and must yield as the passive slaves of a system which will inevitably render them poor and despicable . Half - informed statesmen frequently betray gross ignorance in attempt- ing to legislate about what they do not ...
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... freemen . It matters not whether per- secution proceeds from the iron grasp of an Autocrat or an Oligarchy , or emanates from the corrupt influence of a Democracy - the effect is still the same ; and the pressure is felt 42.
... freemen . It matters not whether per- secution proceeds from the iron grasp of an Autocrat or an Oligarchy , or emanates from the corrupt influence of a Democracy - the effect is still the same ; and the pressure is felt 42.
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Page 23 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 6 - I maintain that sovereignty is in its nature indivisible. It is the supreme power in a State, and we might just as well speak of half a square, or half of a triangle, as of half a sovereignty.
Page 6 - ... surrender of them. A sovereign may delegate his powers to be exercised by as many agents as he may think proper, under such conditions and with such limitations as he may impose; but to surrender any portion of his sovereignty to another is to annihilate the whole.
Page 23 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial.
Page 23 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench, or twirling a distaff.
Page 20 - Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole.
Page 7 - Laplace, and astronomy itself from a mere observation of insulated facts into that noble science which displays to our admiration the system of the universe. And shall this high power of the mind, which has effected such wonders when directed to the laws which control the material world, be forever prohibited, under a senseless cry of metaphysics...
Page 18 - Exorbitant duties on imported articles serve to beget a general spirit Of smuggling ; which is always prejudicial to the fair trader, and eventually to the revenue itself: they tend to render other classes of the community tributary, in an improper degree, to the manufacturing classes, to whom they give a premature monopoly of the markets : they sometimes force industry out of its most natural channels...
Page 7 - He held them to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power. Denunciation may indeed fall upon the philosophical inquirer into these first principles, as it did upon Galileo and Bacon, when they first unfolded the great discoveries which have immortalized their names; but the time will come when truth will prevail in spite of Prejudice and denunciation, and when politics and legisition will be considered as much a...
Page 7 - It is the power •which raises man above the brute — which distinguishes his faculties from mere sagacity, which he holds in common with inferior animals. It is this power which has raised the astronomer from being a mere gazer at the stars to the high intellectual eminence of a Newton or Laplace, and astronomy itself from a mere observation of insulated facts into that noble science which displays to our admiration the system of the universe.