A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The 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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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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?
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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