America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONTo 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 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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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War 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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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