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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Knowledge 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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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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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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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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