Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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