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 MADISONAmericans 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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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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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