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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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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 pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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