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"Notwithstanding the softness which it now assumes, and the care with which it conceals its giant proportions beneath the deceitful drapery of sentiment, when it next appears before you it may show itself with a sterner countenance and in more awful dimensions. It is, to speak the truth, sir, a power of colossal size,&mdash;if, indeed, it be not an abuse of language to call it by the gentle name of a power."&mdash;.

"Sir, this was a single arch; it is rapidly becoming a combination of arches, and where the centre now is, whether in Kentucky or in Pennsylvania, or where at any given time it will be, might be very difficult to tell."&mdash;.

"I am not well versed in history, but I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people or by the tyranny of rulers. I imagine, sir, you will find the balance on the side of tyranny. Happy will you be, if you miss the fate of those nations who, omitting to resist their oppressors, or negligently suffering their liberty to be wrested from them, have groaned under intolerable despotism."&mdash;.

"I conceive that the object of the discussion now before us is, whether democracy or despotism be most eligible."&mdash;.

"What does reason, what does argument avail, when party spirit presides? Subject your bench to the influence of this spirit, and justice bids a final adieu to your tribunals."&mdash;.

"Ye gentle graces, if any such there be who preside over human actions, how must ye weep at the viciousness of man!"&mdash;.

"But my whole endeavor is to resolve the conscience, and to show, as near as I can, what in this controversy the heart is to think, if it will follow the light of sound and sincere judgment, without either cloud of prejudice or mist of passionate affection."&mdash;.

"The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free government, to prove, by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political institutions, which are attracting observation from every quarter, and are respected as models by the new-born States in our own hemisphere, are as favorable to the intellectual 100