“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
