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.
JAMES MADISONAnd 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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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 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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