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" A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. "
Mankind
Desire
Business
" A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. "
Society
Liberty
Government
" A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. "
Government
Freedom
Whose
" It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade. "
Trade
Depend
Farmer
" Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection. "
Power
Eye
Judge
" Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. "
World
Used
Liberty
" Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous. "
Own
Judge
Happy
" The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. "
Words
Human
Ideas
" The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family. "
Power
Support
Family
" The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges. "
Opportunity
Best
Crazy
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