The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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