Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONBy rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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