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First Principles: Freedom Can Exist Only In the Society of Knowledge. Without Learning, Men Are Incapable of Knowing Their Rights

“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” – Dr. Benjamin Rush

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Thought For the Day: The Framers of the Bill of Rights Did Not Purport To ‘Create’ Rights. Rather, They Designed the Bill of Rights To Prohibit Our Government From Infringing Rights and Liberties Presumed To Be Preexisting

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” – Justice William J. Brennan

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First Principles: Continue Steadfast and, With A Proper Sense of Your Dependence On God, Nobly Defend Those Rights Which Heaven Gave, And No Man Ought To Take From Us

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Men, Their Rights, and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Less

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” – Susan B. Anthony

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First Principles: Each Political Society Should Contribute Such A Share of Their Rights, As Will Form A Common Stock of These Rights, Produce the Largest Quantity of Benefits For Them

“As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Question Is, Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man, But How They May Be Most Equally and Efficiently Guarded In Society

“The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.” – Roger Sherman

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Thought For the Day: The Whole People, Who Formed the Union…Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” – Susan … Continue reading

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First Principles: One Great Object of the Constitution Was To Restrain Majorities From Oppressing Minorities Or Encroaching Upon Their Just Rights

“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.” – James K. Polk

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First Principles: The Question Is, Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man, But How They May Be Most Equally and Effectually Guarded In Society

“The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.” – Roger Sherman

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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Becomes the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual…Nobly Defend Those Rights Which Heaven Gave

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – … Continue reading

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