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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

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Rapid erasure of the blot on our Republican character.

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

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A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.

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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

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Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious.

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The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

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One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge…is the only guardian of true liberty.

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The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

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But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

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To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

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In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

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