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The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .
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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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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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The means ought to be proportioned to the end the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
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And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
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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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The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.
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A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
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In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
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