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When I look upon these crowded thousands, and see them trample on their consciences and the rights of their fellow-men at the bidding of a piece of parchment, I say my curse be on the Constitution of these United States.
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The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
November 29, 1811
Died:
February 2, 1884
(aged 72)
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