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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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