All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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