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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.”
“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.”
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
“I feel the deepest affliction at the news we have just received at the loss of our dear and inestimable friend Laurens. His career of virtue is at end. How strangely are human affairs conducted, th...”
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in wh...”
“Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.”
“Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.”
“If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution,...”
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out ...”
“And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objectio...”
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.”
“I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my ...”
“It is a maxim deeply ingrafted in that dark system, that no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.”
“Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.”
“When we read in the valuable production of those great Oriental scholars ... those of a Jones, a Wilkings, a Colebrooke, or a Halhed, - we uniformly discover in the Hindus a nation, whose polished ...”
“If they break this Union, they will break my heart.”
