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.
JAMES MADISONI 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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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