Quote #25

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

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  1. I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitut…
  2. Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing langu…
  3. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
  4. Delay is preferable to error.
  5. The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
  6. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
  7. I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in …
  8. The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

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