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.
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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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