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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Certain Degree Distrusted Men Ought Powe
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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Charge Danger Home Liberty Loss Provision Rank Truth Universal
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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Danger Great Majority May Minority Republic Respect Right Sufficiency

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