All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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