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.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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 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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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