War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONWhere an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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