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.
JAMES MADISONThey 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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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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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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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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 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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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