The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
JAMES MADISONLet 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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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