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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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