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The First Duty Of Man Is To Take None Of The Principles Of Conduct Upon Trust; To Do Nothing Without A Clear And Individual Conviction That It Is Right To Be Done.

Revolutions Are The Produce Of Passion, Not Of Sober And Tranquil Reason.

Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With Tyranny, Yet Is Itself Pregnant With Tyranny.... An Attempt To Scrutinize Men's Thoughts And Punish Their Opinions Is Of All Kinds Of Despotism The Most Odious: Yet This Is Peculiarly Character Of A Period Of Revolution.... There Is No Period More At War With The Existence Of Liberty.

Make Men Wise, And By That Very Operation You Make Them Free. Civil Liberty Follows As A Consequence Of This; No Usurped Power Can Stand Against The Artillery Of Opinion.

What Can Be More Clear And Sound In Explanation, Than The Love Of A Parent To His Child?