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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
11th president · 1845–1849
James K. Polk
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By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.
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Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.
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The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.