A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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