“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
