"The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves."
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"Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal."
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"Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers."
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"For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold."
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"Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear."
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"If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance."
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"Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours."
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"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation."
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"The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature."
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"No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable."
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"To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting."
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