As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONBy 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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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