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.
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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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