He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.William Godwin
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence. Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
William Godwin
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