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I 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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