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.
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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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