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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 be, we cannot…
- Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
- 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…
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
- 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…
- 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…
- To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
- Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A…
- Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
- The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
- 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…
- To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,…
- After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United…
- As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to…
- It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford…
- 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…
- If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their…
- 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…
- . . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the…
- Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too…
- Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,…
- Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that…
- Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in…
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