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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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