A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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