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

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.

The First Duty Of Man Is To Take None Of The Principles Of Conduct Upon Trust; To Do Nothing Without A Clear And Individual Conviction That It Is Right To Be Done.

The Subtleties Of Mathematics Defecate The Grossness Of Our Apprehension, And Supply The Elements Of A Sounder And Severer Logic.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.