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.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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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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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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