In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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