No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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