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- A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and…
- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according…
- As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
- The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
- Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.
- When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for…
- In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to…
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.…
- As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
- In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to…
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