Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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