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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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Country Journey Leasant Mild Pleasant Season
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Come Country Enemy Fight Guise Land Oppression
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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Darkness Exist Firmament Light Many Now Political
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Church Guardian Instance Liberation People
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power

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