The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONI entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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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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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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