A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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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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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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