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 people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
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