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.
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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