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?
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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