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.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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