A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
JAMES MADISONEvery nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The 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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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