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Here sir, the people govern.
Learn to think continentally.
A promise must never be broken.
The honor of a nation is its life.
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
The deliberative sense of the community should govern.
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.