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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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

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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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A 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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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