Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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