All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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