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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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