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.
JAMES MADISONI 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.
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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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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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