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 MADISONOf 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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