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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISON

Continual Freedom Midst National Preserve Warfare
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Beget Confidence Religion Sentiment Surprise Union
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
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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Acquire Farce Government Information Mean Popular Prologue Tragedy
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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Edify Learn Liberty More Other Seasonable Spectacle
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Big Common Philosophy Sense Word
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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Diversity Faculty Insuperable Man Obstacle Originate Property Right
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Alarm Experiment First Liberty Right
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made
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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Cooperation Political Promotion Reconstruction Sincere Steadfast System
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
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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Acquire Personal Properly Property Protection Right Social
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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Account Advance Between Debt Former Indispensible Live Made State
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Commercial Communication Free Generally Shackles
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Bear Burden Each Generation Made Own War
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Danger Extensive Federal Government Important Most Operation Time War
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
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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Advantage Arm Being Constitution Country Every People Possess Preserve
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Come Country Enemy Fight Guise Land Oppression
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
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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Abuse Alone Chequered Press
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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Citizen Class Food Independent Mostly Own Provide Raiment True View
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISON

Communication Free Man Opinion Property

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