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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
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
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Better Circulation Confidence Money
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Government Human Itself Nature Reflection
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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Diversity Faculty Insuperable Man Obstacle Originate Property Right
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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Cherish Labor Luxury Other Pride Property Render Vanity
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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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
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
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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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 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
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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
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
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Favourite Free Institution Learn Object Ought People

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