The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONAll 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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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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