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I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. C...more

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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere sha...more

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If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy wit...more

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

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A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.