I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONThey 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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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