Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISONIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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