Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONEach generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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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