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.
JAMES MADISONWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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