To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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