No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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