“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
