A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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.
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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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