The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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