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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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 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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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