What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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