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.
JAMES MADISONI have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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 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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