Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress
In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.