Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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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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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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