“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
