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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

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The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction....

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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

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Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

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One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

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And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

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If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

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In times like these in which we live, it will not do to be overscrupulous.

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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

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The country people in the island, in general, are very unpolished and rude.
On Rhode Island

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Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

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No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

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Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound their true meaning and operation.

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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.

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Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...

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A power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government...

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There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

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There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation...

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The independence of judges once destroyed, the Constitution is gone; it is a dead letter.

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