- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
- Property
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- Nov 07, 2020
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
- Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
- Nov 07, 2020
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
- Leisure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Property
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- Counteract
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Devotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- Guardian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Concur
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
- Ceaseless
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020