The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONEvery 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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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