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- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
- [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
- Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least…
- That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
- Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can…
- I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give…
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
- Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?…
- Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
- There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether…
- And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,…
- The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not…
- The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the…
- A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any…
- A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all…
- It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself,…
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
- There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much…
- There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does…
- The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
- The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give…
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