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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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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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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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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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