I had always determined, whatever might have been the result of the examination by the sovereign arbiter, to have submitted the same to the Senate for their advice before I executed or rejected it.
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It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
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