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Political literature

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

The American Commonwealth · 1888

★ 0.9

Political literature

Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

1973

★ 0.9

Political literature

Surely of all 'rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

1840

★ 1.0

Political literature

The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again.

1963

★ 1.0

Political literature

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The American Crisis · 1776

★ 1.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

All religion, however, is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring · 1878

★ 1.1

Political literature

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 1.2

Pamphlet · Political literature

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

The American Crisis · 1776

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of...faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.

Federalist 10 · 1787

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

Federalist 10 · 1787

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

Bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 84 · 1788

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 29 · 1788

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

Each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.

Federalist 51 · 1788

★ 1.2

Philosophical literature · Political literature

What is called monarchy, always appears to me a silly, contemptible thing. I compare it to something kept behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when, by any accident, the curtain happens to be open, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.

Rights of Man · 1792

★ 1.2

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 1.2

Political literature

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy, and creates dissension.

1937

★ 1.2

Essay · Political literature

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 1.3

Political literature

Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 1.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition, and mutual envy of the living.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 1.3

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