The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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