A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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