A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONOf 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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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 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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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 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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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 Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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