A free people [claim] their ...

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.