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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.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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