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"The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe."


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John Adams (more quotes by John Adams or books by/about John Adams)


(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President

Source:

A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

Keywords:

Rights

Categories:

America, Freedom, God, Government, Individual Rights, Liberty, President, Rights, Sovereignty

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