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.
JAMES MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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