Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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 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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