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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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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
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Government Institute Object Person Property Protection Right
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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Citizen Class Food Independent Mostly Own Provide Raiment True View
In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Church Guardian Instance Liberation People
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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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Danger Great Majority May Minority Republic Respect Right Sufficiency
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
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Ascertain Education Expense Forward Meet Posses Public Talent Youth
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISON

Faculty First Government Object Protection
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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Acquire Personal Properly Property Protection Right Social
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
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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Encroachment Liberty Mind Public Security Soil Throw Treasure
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Abolition Capital Entire Fair Punishment Regret Trail
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny
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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Duly Excess Power Prevail Property Respect Sort
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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Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
JAMES MADISON

Cooperation Political Promotion Reconstruction Sincere Steadfast System
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Country Immigration Indelible Prosperity Settlement
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
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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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
JAMES MADISON

Amde Avail Choice Law Little Men Own
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Bless Effect Internal Itself Liberty Mutable Policy
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power

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