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Oliver Ellsworth has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and…
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
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The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible…
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates…
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and…
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty.…
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy…
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.…
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array…
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring…
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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
— George Washington
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Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one…
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To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have…
— James A. Garfield
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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