In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONThe executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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