The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONAny reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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