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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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Advantage Arm Being Constitution Country Every People Possess Preserve
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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Come Country Enemy Fight Guise Land Oppression
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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Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Case Decide Declare Executive Question Right War
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Equal Man Property Right Said
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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong

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