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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to…
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What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.
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Richard and I, along with millions of Americans - including even Joe Donnelly - believe that life is a gift from God.…
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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock…
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
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Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.
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Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution…
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