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The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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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 a...more

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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are...more

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it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Cons...more

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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violen...more

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In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control th...more

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establi...more

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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...