We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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The 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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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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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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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