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

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
JAMES MADISON

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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 pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISON

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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.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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