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.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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