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.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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 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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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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