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.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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