That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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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 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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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