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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.
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Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
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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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The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
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The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts and the powers you give it will never affect your security.
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Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.
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Here, sir, the people govern here they act by their immediate representatives.
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No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
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These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
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The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
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To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.
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