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"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
"The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination."
"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."
"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!"
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"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
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