Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
JAMES MADISONIt 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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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