The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 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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