A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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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