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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.James Madison
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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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