Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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 man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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