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.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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