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It Is Seldom Men Think Of Death In The Pride Of Their Health And Strength.

In America, It Is Indispensable That Every Well Wisher Of True Liberty Should Understand That Acts Of Tyranny Can Only Proceed From The Publick. The Publick, Then, Is To Be Watched, In This Country, As, In Other Countries Kings And Aristocrats Are To Be Watched.

Property Is Desirable As The Ground Work Of Moral Independence, As A Means Of Improving The Faculties, And Of Doing Good To Others, And As The Agent In All That Distinguishes The Civilized Man From The Savage.

The Listeners Got Some Such Insights Into Their Past Lives, As One Gets Into The Darker Parts Of The Woods, When A Stray Gleam Of Sunshine Finds Its Way Down To The Roots Of The Trees.

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority. Unrestrained Political Authority, Though It Be Confided To Masses, Cannot Be Trusted Without Positive Limitations, Men In Bodies Being But An Aggregation Of The Passions, Weaknesses And Interests Of Men As Individuals.