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.
JAMES MADISONIf 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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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