Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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