The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONA well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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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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