The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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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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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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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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All 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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