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.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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