No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONNo 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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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