A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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