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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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