In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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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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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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