In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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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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