We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISONWhere 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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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