Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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