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.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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