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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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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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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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