All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The 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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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