Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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