I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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By 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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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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