As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONThe Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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