Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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 should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 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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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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