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War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

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To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.
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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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The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
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The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.
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Experience is the oracle of truth and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
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