Philosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISONLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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 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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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