If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISONA 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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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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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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