A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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The 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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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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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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