Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONEvery 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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 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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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