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.
JAMES MADISONA 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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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