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.
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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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