States House Committee

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“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)