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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
