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The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

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The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge right or make good decision.
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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
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The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.
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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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