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.
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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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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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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