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 MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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