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“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.”

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“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect…

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“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.”

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As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be composed of…

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The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

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I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.

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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

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“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.”

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Those who own the country ought to govern it.

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Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of…

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“Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like…

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“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile,…

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The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from…

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