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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
JAMES MADISON

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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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