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“a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearances of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us, that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism, than the latter, and that 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.”
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
“The primary conception of this whole American system is not the ordering of men but the cooperation of free men. It is rounded upon the conception of responsibility of the individual to the community, of the responsibility of local government to the State, of the State to the National Government.”
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
― 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
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