Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONWar should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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