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.
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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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