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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to ev...more

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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important?...more

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Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

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All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, ...more

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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political conne...more

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Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to li...more