An Oppressed People Are Authorized

A Nation's Character Is The Sum Of Its Splendid Deeds; They Constitute One Common Patrimony, The Nation's Inheritance. They Awe Foreign Powers, They Arouse And Animate Our Own People.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

An Oppressed People Are Authorized Whenever They Can To Rise And Break Their Fetters.

We Have Had Good And Bad Presidents, And It Is A Consoling Reflection That The American Nation Possesses Such Elements Of Prosperity That The Bad Presidents Cannot Destroy It, And Have Been Able To Do No More Than Slightly To Retard The Public's Advancement.

The Great Advantage Of Our System Of Government Over All Others, Is, That We Have A Written Constitution, Defining Its Limits, And Prescribing Its Authorities; And That, However, For A Time, Faction May Convulse The Nation, And Passion And Party Prejudice Sway Its Functionaries, The Season Of Reflection Will Recur, When Calmly Retracing Their Deeds, All Aberrations From Fundamental Principle Will Be Corrected.