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Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.
Declaration of Rights (1812)
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
Declaration of Rights (1812)
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
Declaration of Rights (1812)
Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Declaration of Rights (1812)
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!
Declaration of Rights (1812)
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.
Declaration of Rights (1812)
Government has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
Declaration of Rights (1812)