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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Country Immigration Indelible Prosperity Settlement
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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Abate Assume Class Doubt Found Government Misery
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.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Proprietor Accept Concur Constitution Entire Resort Sense
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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Continue Excercise Fallible Hope Liberty Long Reason
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Government Human Itself Nature Reflection
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Body Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Mind Nobel People Religious Shackle Unfit
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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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary

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