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 MADISON
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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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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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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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