The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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