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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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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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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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