I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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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.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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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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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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