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Taxation and representation are inseparable... Whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him withough his consent either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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Lord Camden. "On the Declatory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies." House of Lords, 10 Feb. 1766, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

Joseph Priestley

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Priestley, Joseph. An Essay on the First Principles of Government. London: J. Dodsley, 1768.

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Priestley, Joseph. "An Essay on the First Principles of Government." Priestley: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius

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Junius. Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8 Aug. 1769.

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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In all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

William Blackstone

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, ch. 2.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 2.

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One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Walpole

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Christopher Wren. 9 Aug. 1764.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Christopher Wren." Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Vol. 40, Yale University Press, 1980.

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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