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.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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