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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
