P. W. Grayson Quotes


The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.


Citations

P. W. Grayson, *, Kentucky State Legislator, Attorney & Social Critic, Vice Unmasked, An Essay: Being a Consideration of the Influence of Law Upon the Moral Essence of Man, New York, 1830

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