America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object 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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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