I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
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In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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The only purpose of government is to protect the people.
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