 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 540 pages
...to their abilities, they add, "but an exemption from the burden of ungranted and involuntary taxes, must be the grand principle of every free State. Without...such a right vested in themselves, exclusive of all otiiers, there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security ; it is inseparable from the very idea... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1832 - 756 pages
...language of the following character: " That »n exemption from the burden of ungranted involuntary taxes must be the grand principle of every free State. Without...no happiness, no security; it is inseparable from every idea of property; for who can call that his own which m»y be taken away at the pleasure of another?... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...taxes, they insist that " an exemption from the burden of all ungranted and involuntary, taxes, is the grand principle of every free state ; without...there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security," — and this, they add, not upon any "privilege," but on a basis more honorable, solid, and stable... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...own taxes, they insist that " an exemption from the burden of all ungranted and involuntary taxes, is the grand principle of every free state ; without such a right vested in themselves, exclusive of nil others, there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security," — and this, they add, not upon any... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1852 - 490 pages
...ungranted and involuntary taxes" — such were the words of the General Assembly of New- York — " must be the grand principle of every free state. Without...there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security, CHAP. nor even the idea of property. Life itself would ^^ become intolerable. We proceed with propriety... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1852 - 484 pages
...of ungranted and involuntary taxes" — such were the words of the General Assembly of New-York — "must be the grand principle of every free state....right vested in themselves, exclusive of all others, 1 General Assembly of the Colony of New- York to tho Lords, 18 Oct. there can be no liberty, no happiness,... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 pages
...of ungranted and involuntary taxes" — such were the words of the General Assembly of New-York — "must be the grand principle of every free state....there can "be no liberty, no happiness, no security, CHAP. nor even the idea of property. Life itself would _^_ become intolerable. "We proceed with propriety... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 612 pages
...to tax them. " An exemption from the burden of ungranted and involuntary taxes," was their language, "must be the grand principle of every free State....there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security, not even the idea of property. Life itself would become intolerable. We nobly disdain the thought of... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 610 pages
...to tax them. " An exemption from the burden of ungranted and involuntary taxes," was their language, "must be the grand principle of every free State....there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security, not even the idea of property. Life itself would become intolerable. We nobly disdain the thought of... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 pages
...ungranted and involuntary taxes"—such were the words of the General Assembly of New-York—"must be the grand principle of every free state. Without...there can be no liberty, no happiness, no security, CHAP. nor even the idea of property. Life itself would ^^^ become intolerable. "We proceed with propriety... | |
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An exemption from the burden of ungranted and involuntary taxes," such were the words of the general assembly of New York, " must be the grand principle of every free state. Without such a right vested in themselves, exclusive of all others, there can... 
