Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
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If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity.
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Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
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