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Here sir, the people govern.

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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.
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In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
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Here, sir, the people govern here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
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One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
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Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
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When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.
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If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.
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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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In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
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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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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion.
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It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
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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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[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.
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