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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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" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

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" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

" 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. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. "

James Madison

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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. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "

" The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. "

" The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. "

" The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" 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. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" 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. "

" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "

" 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. "

" 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. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "