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.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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