The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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