What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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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.
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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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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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