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.
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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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