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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

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Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

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In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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