Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
JAMES MADISONThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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