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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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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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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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