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We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
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The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal fallacious.
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Why would the president bring this up It's a difficult issue, may cause us to have to make a tough vote.
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Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country
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No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am but I have never yet been able to discover the propriety of placing it absolutely out of the power of men to render essential services.
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