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.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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