“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.”
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.