If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God.
First US President
Speech at the Constitutional Convention, as recorded by James Madison
1787
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Strange & Unusual"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States."
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