The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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