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.
JAMES MADISONA 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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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