Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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