All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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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 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Of 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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 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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