The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object 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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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