Western Civ II
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- ". . . I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom though drivest from joy for no misdeed. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
- Shelley
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". . . if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility."
- Mill
- ". . . the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant."
- Mill
- ". . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
- Jefferson
- "A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase."
- Darwin
- "As much Land as Man Tills, Plants, Improves, Cultivates, and can use for the Product of, so much is his property."
- Locke
- "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent
- Madison
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"He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of Nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation."
- Darwin
- "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
- Hamilton
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"In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is, therefore, capable of being more valuable to others."
- Mill
- "Pity, is what, in the state of nature, takes the place of laws, mores, and virtue. . ."
- Rousseau
- "The end of all political associations, is, the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression."
- Paine
- "The first perso who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say 'this is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society"
- Rousseau
- "These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquilized it."
- Shelley
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"Though the Earth and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no body has any Right to but himself."
- Locke
- "Thus this 'I,' that is to say, the soul through which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from the body and is even easier to know than the body, and even if there were no body at all, it would not cease to be all that it is."
- Descartes
- "Treason against the United State, shall consist in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving aid and comfort."
- Constitution
- "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. . ."
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Stanton - Seneca Falls
"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"
- "Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility."
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Olympe de Gouges
"Rights of Women"