The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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