War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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