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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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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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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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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 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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