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.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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