I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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