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1139 Statesman Quotes

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Against Become Danger Defense
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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.

Control Enable First Framing
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Diversity Faculties First Government
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Government Greatest Human Human Nature
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Alarm Experiment First Liberties
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Equally He His Man
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Avail Cannot Choice Laws
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Abuse Abuse Of Power Also Endangered
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Certain Certain Degree Degree Having
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Could Freedom Midst Nation
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Because Develops Dreaded Enemies
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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.

Any Case Cause Decide
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Big Common Philosophy Sense
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Begets Confidence Religious Sentiments
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Alone Free Free People People
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Aid Flourishes Government Greater
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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Been Churches Guardians Instance
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Danger Great Majority May
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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.

Constitution Example Happy Hope
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Bondage Enterprise Every Mind
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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.

Acquiring Both Farce Government
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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.

Bear Burden Carrying Each
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Acquire Acquired Gives Natural
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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.

Both Done Doubt Every
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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.

Affairs Betray Calculate Every
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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.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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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.

Different Different Opinions Exercise Fallible
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Abolition Capital Capital Punishment Entire
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Contains Folly Hoped Much
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Communication Free His Man
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Any Apt Classes Fill
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Blessings Effects Internal Itself
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Commercial Generally Oppressive Shackles
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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.

Best Country Easy Journey
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The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Best Evil Form Government
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Fatigue Flattery Great Little
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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Artillery Cavalry Department Estimated
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Constant Ill Preparation Stimulus
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Cause Condition Country Existence
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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

Been Has Been Indian Indiana
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Basis Continue France Friendly
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Ancient Example Find Gigantic
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Become Corrupt Degenerate Exercising
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National honor is the national property of the highest value.

Highest Honor National Property
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Commence Complete Did Ever
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Country House Lack Liberty
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Change Essential Europe Experienced
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

America Any Between Civil
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Alone Contemplation Effect Felt
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