Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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