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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

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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.

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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.

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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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