The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONBy 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.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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