The Error Is In The Assumption That

The Very Essence Of A Free Government Consists In Considering Offices As Public Trusts, Bestowed For The Good Of The Country, And Not For The Benefit Of An Individual Or A Party.

A Power Has Risen Up In The Government Greater Than The People Themselves, Consisting Of Many And Various Powerful Interests, Combined In One Mass, And Held Together By The Cohesive Power Of The Vast Surplus In Banks.

If We Do Not Defend Ourselves None Will Defend Us; If We Yield We Will Be More And More Pressed As We Recede; And If We Submit We Will Be Trampled Under Foot. I Hold Concession Or Compromise To Be Fatal. If We Concede An Inch, Concession Would Follow Compromise, Until Our Ranks Would Be So Broken That Effectual Resistance Would Be Impossible.

How Can Those Who Are Invested With The Power Of Government Be Prevented From The Abuse Of Those Powers As The Means Of Aggrandizing Themselves? ... Without A Strong Constitution To Counteract The Strong Tendency Of Government To Disorder And Abuse There Can Be Little Progress Or Improvement.

The Defence Of Human Liberty Against The Aggressions Of Despotic Power Have Been Always The Most Efficient In States Where Domestic Slavery Was To Prevail.