Philosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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