James Madison
When William Cushing died, Madison nominated Levi Lincoln, Sr. who declined the nomination.
Alexander Wolcott was then nominated, but was rejected by a vote of 9–24 on Feb 13, 1811.
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“At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.”
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“The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.”
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“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
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