Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONKnowledge 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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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.
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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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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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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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