If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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