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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 we suppose mankind…
- 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…
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk…
- [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…
- Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- 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…
- A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete…
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human…
- These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt…
- It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still…
- When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would…
- A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound 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…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
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