The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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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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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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