I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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