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• The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
• The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own…
• It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause…
• Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
• The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,…
• The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
• The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the…
• Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
• The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and…
• A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of…
• But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be…

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