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.
JAMES MADISONReligion 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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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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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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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.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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