"Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment."
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"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom."
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"The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods."
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"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free."
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"The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone."
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"Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society."
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"Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people."
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"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."
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"Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."
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"We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever."
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"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
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"[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government."
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"The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible."
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"The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people."
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"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."
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"I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly."
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"I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."
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"When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."
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"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."
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