A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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