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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISON

Communication Free Man Opinion Property
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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Administered Control Enable First Frame Government Men Over
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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Amde Avail Choice Law Little Men Own
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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Darkness Exist Firmament Light Many Now Political
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON

Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
JAMES MADISON

Bear Burden Each Generation Made Own War
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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Account Advance Between Debt Former Indispensible Live Made State
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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Proprietor Accept Concur Constitution Entire Resort Sense
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
JAMES MADISON

Abridgement Believe Encroachment Freedom Gradual Instance More People Silent
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Certain Degree Distrusted Men Ought Powe
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Government Institute Object Person Property Protection Right
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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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Country Immigration Indelible Prosperity Settlement
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Better Circulation Confidence Money
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.
JAMES MADISON

All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Contain Folly Hope Progress Reason Well Wickedness
That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Advance Agriculture Art Country Most Part Population Rapid
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Continual Freedom Midst National Preserve Warfare
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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Administer Assemble Citizen Consist Democracy Government Number Pure Small Society
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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Capacity Female Highest Manifest Mind Order People Study Sufficient
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Beget Confidence Religion Sentiment Surprise Union
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Abuse Alone Chequered Press
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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Edify Learn Liberty More Other Seasonable Spectacle

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