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- Fighting
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- Liberty
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
- Democracy
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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.
- Hands
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- Freedom
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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.
- Ignorance
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- Guardian
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
- Body
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- May
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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?
- Concur
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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.
- Ceaseless
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
- Danger
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- Enable
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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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020