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.
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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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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 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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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