Cato's Letters. ...W. Wilkins, T. Woodward, J. Walthoe, and J. Peele, 1724 |
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Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and ..., Volumen1 John Trenchard Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and ..., Volumen1 John Trenchard Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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Página 97 - WITHOUT Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to Know.
Página xiv - ... for me. From a perfect stranger to him, and without any other recommendation than a casual coffee-house acquaintance, and his own good opinion, he took me into his favour and care, and into as high a degree of intimacy as ever was shown by one man to another. This was the more remarkable, and did me the greater honour, for that he was naturally as shy in making friendships as he was eminently cqnstant to those which he had already made.
Página 306 - Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government — a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
Página 259 - As long as there are such Things as Printing and Writing, there will be Libels. It is an Evil arising out of a much greater good. And as to those who are for locking up the Press, because it produces Monsters, they ought to consider that so do the Sun and the Nile, and that it is...
Página 98 - The administration of government is nothing else but the attendance of the trustees of the people upon the interest and affairs of the people. And as it is the part and business of the people, for whose sake alone all publick matters are, or ought to be transacted...
Página 264 - Society, and putting themselves under Penalties if they violated these terms, which were called Laws, and put into the Hands of one or more Men to execute. And thus men quitted Part of their natural Liberty to acquire civil Security.
Página 104 - Freedom of speech, therefore, being of such infinite importance to the preservation of liberty, every one who loves liberty ought to encourage freedom of speech. Hence it is that I, living in a country of liberty, and under the best prince upon earth, shall take this very...
Página 102 - ... detested. To assert, that King James was a Papist and a Tyrant, was only so far hurtful to him as it was true of him; and if the Earl of Strafford had not deserved to be Impeached, he need not have feared a Bill of Attainder. If our directors and their Confederates be not such Knaves as the World thinks them, let them prove to all the World, that the World thinks wrong, and that they are guilty of none of those Villainies which all the World lays to...
Página 103 - ... their mouths, but to flatter. Pliny the Younger observes, that this dread of tyranny had such effect, that the Senate, the great Roman Senate, became at last stupid and dumb . . . Hence, says he, our spirit and genius are stupified, broken, and sunk for ever.
Página 260 - ... head, and a firebrand in his hand; and nothing can be more false, than the insinuations which he makes, and the ugly resemblances which he would draw. The paper is a heap of falsehood and treason, delivered in the style and spirit of billingsgate; and indeed most of the enemies to his Majesty's person, title, and government, have got the faculty of writing and talking, as if they had their education in that quarter. However, as bad as that letter is (and I think there cannot be a worse), occasion...