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.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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