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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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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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