War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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