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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Government Human Itself Nature Reflection
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 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Favourite Free Institution Learn Object Ought People
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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Constitution Happy Hope Liberty Miracle Wonder
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Cherish Labor Luxury Other Pride Property Render Vanity
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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Case Decide Declare Executive Question Right War
In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Church Guardian Instance Liberation People
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Country Journey Leasant Mild Pleasant Season
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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