In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
JAMES MADISONLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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