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As 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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true 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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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