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?
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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