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.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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