The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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