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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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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
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.
JAMES MADISON

Criterion Gotten Majority Philosophic Suffrage Take Truth Ught
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
JAMES MADISON

Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made
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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Account Advance Between Debt Former Indispensible Live Made State
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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISON

Continue Excercise Fallible Hope Liberty Long Reason
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Beget Confidence Religion Sentiment Surprise Union
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Devotion Industry Mainfrstly Morality Number People Priesthood
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Charge Danger Home Liberty Loss Provision Rank Truth Universal
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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Administer Assemble Citizen Consist Democracy Government Number Pure Small Society

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