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It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.
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Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.
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If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends.
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Never with my consent shall an officer of the people, compensated for his services out of their pockets, become the pliant instrument of Executive will.
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This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.
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When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.