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.
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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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 pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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