They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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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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