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.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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