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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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