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" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

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" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

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

" 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. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

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

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. "

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

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

" Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. "

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "

" All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. "

" 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. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" 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. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. "