A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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 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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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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