Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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