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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

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States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
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If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
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It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
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The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .
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In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
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The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.
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The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
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The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
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[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.
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The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.
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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
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Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
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The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
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[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.
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Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.
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Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.
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