America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISON
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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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