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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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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Born:
November 29, 1811
Died:
February 2, 1884
(aged 72)
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