Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

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To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

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As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

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I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

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I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

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I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.

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