The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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.
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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?
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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.
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