Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

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• Oliver Ellsworth:

  A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the pre

• Oliver Ellsworth:

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• Oliver Ellsworth:

  The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and ne

• Oliver Ellsworth:

  Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that s

• Oliver Ellsworth:

  Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations,

• Oliver Ellsworth:

  A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

• Oliver Ellsworth:

  The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been o

• Oliver Evans:

  It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and in

• Oliver Evans:

  People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

• Oliver Goldsmith:

  Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.