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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them
The law is reason, free from passion
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature
Good men must not obey the laws too well
Modesty forbids what the law does not
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
Character of the Happy Warrior
I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1800
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