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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

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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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Abuse Essence Government Hand Human Liable Lodge Must Power
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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