Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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