The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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 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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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