I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
JAMES MADISONThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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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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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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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