War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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