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.
JAMES MADISONAs a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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