The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONIt 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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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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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.
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