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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."

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

"Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."

"The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both."

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties."

"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."

"The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right ."

"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."

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