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Art. 2.
Those rights are
described or in part
blank contradiction
to one another.
Perfect liberty, perfect
property and perfect
security is to be the
lot of every man.
Yet not an atom
of property can he
give to any one but
at the expence of the
property as well as
the liberty of all the everybody
else rest – not an atom of
security but at the
expence of the liberty
of all the rest, to
say nothing of property
in as far as the
establishment occupies
for the maintenance
of general security
is attended with
expence.
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The play thing is as innocent
as it is childish.
The same equal
on the floor of a periodical
magazine is pregnant
with distraction, and blessed
is the fool that rounds
it out.
To prove to you
that so it shall
be, he tells maintains to that
it always was
so.
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Either those ambiguities
&c
could have been
avoided, and they
they should have
avoided them: or
they could not have
been avoided, and
thus no such performance
should
have been attempted.
Either those men
were low on the
scale of ability
in comparison
with such as the
notion afforded,
and then you see
what you get by
popular election,
or they were high,
and then you see
what the deplorable nonsense
which is the best
you can expect.
Abstract propositions.
The more general
the more liable
to misconstruction.
Were they even results
taken in the way of
abstraction and ever to excel they would
be dangerous on account
of their being
or generally useless
their dangerous tendency
were
by a specific reformer
to the all particular limitation
necessary to
bring them within the
meaning of the legislator and within
pale of utility
and reason.
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