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A nation of laws…

By Jennifer Madsen on 4/28/2009 7:20 PM

“All lawful rulers are the servants of the public, exalted above their brethren not for their own sakes, but the benefit of the people; and submission is yielded, not on the account of their persons considered exclusively of the authority they are clothed with, but of those laws, which in the exercise of this authority are made by them, conformably to the laws of nature and equity.”

-Gad Hitchcock (1774)

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Disposed to suffer…

By Jennifer Madsen on 4/27/2009 6:52 PM

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed”. - The Declaration of Independence

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The Preservation of Freedom and Happiness…

By Jennifer Madsen on 4/26/2009 11:51 AM

In a letter to George Wythe (August 1786), Thomas Jefferson stated, “If anybody thinks that kings, nobles, or priests are good conservators of the public happiness send them here (France). It is the best school in the universe to cure them of that folly. They will see here with their own eyes that these descriptions of men are an abandoned confederacy against the happiness of the mass of the people. The omnipotence of their effect cannot be better proved than in this country particularly, where notwithstanding the finest soil upon earth, the finest climate under heaven, and a people of the most benevolent, the most gay and amiable character of which the human form is susceptible, where such a people I say, surrounded by so many blessings from nature, are yet loaded with misery by kings, nobles and priests, and by them alone.”

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