All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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