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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISON

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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.
JAMES MADISON

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