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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? "
James Madison
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" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "
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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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" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "
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" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "
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" 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. "
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" America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. "
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" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "
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" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "
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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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" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "
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" 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. "
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" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "
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" 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. "
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" Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. "
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" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "
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" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "
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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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" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "
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" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "
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" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "
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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 class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "
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" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "
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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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