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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 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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Abuse Essence Government Hand Human Liable Lodge Must Power
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Alarm Experiment First Liberty Right
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
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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Danger Great Majority May Minority Republic Respect Right Sufficiency
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Country Immigration Indelible Prosperity Settlement
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
JAMES MADISON

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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Bear Burden Each Generation Made Own War
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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.
JAMES MADISON

Account Advance Between Debt Former Indispensible Live Made State

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