The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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