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Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With Tyranny, Yet Is Itself Pregnant With Tyranny.... An Attempt To Scrutinize Men's Thoughts And Punish Their Opinions Is Of All Kinds Of Despotism The Most Odious: Yet This Is Peculiarly Character Of A Period Of Revolution.... There Is No Period More At War With The Existence Of Liberty.

Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With Tyranny, Yet Is Itself Pregnant With Tyranny.

Above All We Should Not Forget, That Government Is An Evil, An Usurpation Upon The Private Judgment And Individual Conscience Of Mankind.

The Real Or Supposed Rights Of Man Are Of Two Kinds, Active And Passive; The Right In Certain Cases To Do As We List; And The Right We Possess To The Forbearance Or Assistance Of Other Men. The First Of These A Just Philosophy Will Probably Induce Us Universally To Explode.

By Right, As The Word Is Employed In This Subject, Has Always Been Understood Discretion, That Is, A Full And Complete Power Of Either Doing A Thing Or Omitting It, Without The Person's Becoming Liable To Animadversion Or Censure From Another, That Is, In Other Words, Without His Incurring Any Degree Of Turpitude Or Guilt. Now In This Sense I Affirm That Man Has No Rights, No Discretionary Power Whatever.