The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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 purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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.
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