Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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 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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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