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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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