A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONDespotism 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.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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