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.
JAMES MADISONOf 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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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