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 MADISONTo the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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