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.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Every 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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Knowledge 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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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