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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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