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"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the
objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means,
by which those objects can be best attained."

-- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)

Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 206

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ElGato196

Sent: 29/10/2008 11:26

Founders' Quote Daily

"The republican is the only form of government which is not
eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Letter to William Hunter, 11 March 1790)

Reference: Bartlett's; check LOA edition

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ElGato196

Sent: 30/10/2008 12:26

Founders' Quote Daily

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men,
undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

-- Thomas Paine (The Crisis, no. 4, 11 September 1777)

Reference: resp. quoted

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ElGato196

Sent: 31/10/2008 11:06

Founders' Quote Daily

"I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the
exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial.
But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that
any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers
than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the
several departments."

-- James Madison (speech in the Congress of the United States,
17 June 1789)

Reference: Original Intent, Barton (264); original The Debates
and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, vol. 1 (520)

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ElGato196

Sent: 03/11/2008 11:29

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"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion,
religious or political."

-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801)

Reference: Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United
States.

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ElGato196

Sent: 05/11/2008 11:30

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
—James Madison, Federalist No. 10

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ElGato196

Sent: 07/11/2008 11:53

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."

—Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1

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ElGato196

Sent: 10/11/2008 11:10

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

—Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, March 11, 1790

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ElGato196

Sent: 12/11/2008 11:11

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."

—George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789

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