No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Experience is the oracle of truth and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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