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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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