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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid 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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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