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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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