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"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"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."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
Nation
"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."
Trust
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
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"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
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"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
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"If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States."
Acting
"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large."
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"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
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"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant."
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"We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions."
Peace
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