Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONReligion 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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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