Difference Of Opinion Is Helpful

When Two Parties Make A Compact, There Results To Each A Power Of Compelling The Other To Execute It.

At The Time We Were Funding Our National Debt, We Heard Much About "a Public Debt Being A Public Blessing"; That The Stock Representing It Was A Creation Of Active Capital For The Aliment Of Commerce, Manufactures And Agriculture. This Paradox Was Well Adapted To The Minds Of Believers In Dreams.

Resort Is Had To Ridicule Only When Reason Is Against Us.

A Government Held Together By The Bands Of Reason Only, Requires Much Compromise Of Opinion.

I See Now Our Fireside Formed Into A Groupe, No One Member Of Which Has A Fibre In Their Composition Which Can Ever Produce Any Jarring Or Jealousies Among Us. No Irregular Passions, No Dangerous Bias, Which May Render Problematical The Future Fortunes And Happiness Of Our Descendants.