No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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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.
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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 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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