The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONThe capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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