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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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 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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the 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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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