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.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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