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.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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 popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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