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Quote by James F. Cooper

“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.”

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James F. Cooper

James F. Cooper was an American writer renowned for his historical novels, which often depicted the life on the American frontier. His works are characterized by their vivid portrayal of characters and social changes. Cooper was born on September 15, 1789, and died on September 14, 1851. more

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.”

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Author:John Dickinson

“Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.”

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Author:John Dickinson

“Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.”

Men World Government Care Lasts Liberty Principles Trade Fortune Plunge

Book:The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872

Source: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872

“Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.”

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