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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.

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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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.
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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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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