In all forms of government the people is the true legislator
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.Edmund Burke
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
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A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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