The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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