If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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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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