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Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.
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102
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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By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.
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the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
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A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it.
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Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.
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Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?
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It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear.
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In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
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For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.
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Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm
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No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it.
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.
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Any broader view of this authority would effectively empower a majority to silence dissidents simply as a matter of personal predilections.
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The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.
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Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.
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The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.
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The interest of the people is that there should be full liberty of censure on every public officer, and on every public act or measure.