The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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