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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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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
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When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.
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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty.
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