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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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