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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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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
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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Administered Control Enable First Frame Government Men Over
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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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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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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Alarm Experiment First Liberty Right
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
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Communication Free Man Opinion Property
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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Capacity Female Highest Manifest Mind Order People Study Sufficient
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together

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