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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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