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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.
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The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
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National honor is national property of the highest value.
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Conscious of my own deficiency, I cannot enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result.
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If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.
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the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.