As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
JAMES MADISONWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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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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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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