In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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 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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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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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-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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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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