A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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All 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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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