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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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