It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Thomas Clarkson
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
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