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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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Here sir, the people govern.
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It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
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As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.
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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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After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
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If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
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Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
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Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.
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