We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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