By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
JAMES MADISONAll that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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