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.
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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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