The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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