The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONAll that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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