They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
JAMES MADISONIt 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 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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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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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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