As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
JAMES MADISONAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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