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

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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.
JAMES MADISON

Amde Avail Choice Law Little Men Own
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISON

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

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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.
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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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