The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
JAMES MADISONOf all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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