Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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 men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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