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?
JAMES MADISONIt is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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