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.
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 should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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