What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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