The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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