Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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?
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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