The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
タグ: opinion, generation, doing, facts

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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
タグ: first, price, things, money
Defense is superior to opulence.
タグ: defense, superior
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
タグ: country, never, men, love
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
タグ: wealth, gold, world, money
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
タグ: security, only, justice, nature
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