In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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 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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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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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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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