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- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
- Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
- The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being…
- 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…
- The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of…
- Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
- 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 local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
- Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them…
- The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the…
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
- [W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.
- But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by…
- The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of…
- The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should…
- This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against…
- The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they…
- [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
- Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
- Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change…
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