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 MADISONBy 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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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