I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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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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