I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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