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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Church Guardian Instance Liberation People
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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