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James Iredell on Political Choices

If they choose fools, they will have foolish laws. If they choose knaves, they will have knavish ones. But this can never be the case until they are generally fools or knaves themselves, which, thank God, is not likely ever to become the character of the American people.

- James Iredell, 9 Fed. Cas. 826, no. 5,126 C.C.D.Pa. 1799

James Iredell on Temptations

If men, therefore, of good character, and held in universal estimation for integrity, can be tempted when a great object is in view, to violate the strict duties of morality, what may be expected from others who have neither character nor virtue, but stand ready to yield to temptations of any kind?”

- James Iredell, 9 Fed. Cas. 826, no. 5,126 C.C.D.Pa. 1799