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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
— Ben Jonson
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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…
— James Madison
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In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly…
— James Madison
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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
— Cesar Chavez
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It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as…
— Unknown Author
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A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward…
— James Madison
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…
— Mark Twain
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness…
— John Ruskin
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The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be…
— Frederic Bastiat
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