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

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

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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.

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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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