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.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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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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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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I 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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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