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.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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 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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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