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

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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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Danger Great Majority May Minority Republic Respect Right Sufficiency
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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Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Abolition Capital Entire Fair Punishment Regret Trail
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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Administered Control Enable First Frame Government Men Over
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Commercial Communication Free Generally Shackles
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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Equal Man Property Right Said
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Citizen Class Food Independent Mostly Own Provide Raiment True View
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Body Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Mind Nobel People Religious Shackle Unfit
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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Edify Learn Liberty More Other Seasonable Spectacle
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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Encroachment Liberty Mind Public Security Soil Throw Treasure
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
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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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Certain Degree Distrusted Men Ought Powe
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Authority Declare Fruit Government Real Support Treasure
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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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Diversity Faculty Insuperable Man Obstacle Originate Property Right
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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Abridgement Believe Encroachment Freedom Gradual Instance More People Silent
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Duly Excess Power Prevail Property Respect Sort
By 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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Cherish Labor Luxury Other Pride Property Render Vanity
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Better Circulation Confidence Money
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Government Institute Object Person Property Protection Right
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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