That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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