Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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