The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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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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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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