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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
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To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.
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Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
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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 practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
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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 natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
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As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
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Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
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