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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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 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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True

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