Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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