Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With

No Man Must Encroach Upon My Province, Nor I Upon His. He May Advise Me, Moderately And Without Pertinaciousness, But He Must Not Expect To Dictate To Me. He May Censure Me Freely And Without Reserve; But He Should Remember That I Am To Act By My Deliberation And Not His. I Ought To Exercise My Talents For The Benefit Of Others; But That Exercise Must Be The Fruit Of My Own Conviction; No Man Must Attempt To Press Me Into The Service.

By Right, As The Word Is Employed In This Subject, Has Always Been Understood Discretion, That Is, A Full And Complete Power Of Either Doing A Thing Or Omitting It, Without The Person's Becoming Liable To Animadversion Or Censure From Another, That Is, In Other Words, Without His Incurring Any Degree Of Turpitude Or Guilt. Now In This Sense I Affirm That Man Has No Rights, No Discretionary Power Whatever.

Above All We Should Not Forget, That Government Is An Evil, An Usurpation Upon The Private Judgment And Individual Conscience Of Mankind.

Whenever Truth Stands In The Mind Unaccompanied By The Evidence Upon Which It Depends, It Cannot Properly Be Said To Be Apprehended At All.

It Is Absurd To Expect The Inclinations And Wishes Of Two Human Beings To Coincide, Through Any Long Period Of Time. To Oblige Them To Act And Live Together Is To Subject Them To Some Inevitable Potion Of Thwarting, Bickering, And Unhappiness.