Jonathan Mayhew Quotes
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
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Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.
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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
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For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
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The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.