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The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.