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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

James Madison

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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Affair Calculate Loss Nation Neighbor Stability Sustain Systematic Wisdom
That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Advance Agriculture Art Country Most Part Population Rapid
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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Edify Learn Liberty More Other Seasonable Spectacle
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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Abuse Essence Government Hand Human Liable Lodge Must Power
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Aid Flourish Government Greater Purity Religion
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Body Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Mind Nobel People Religious Shackle Unfit
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
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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Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Abate Assume Class Doubt Found Government Misery
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Capacity Female Highest Manifest Mind Order People Study Sufficient
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Criterion Gotten Majority Philosophic Suffrage Take Truth Ught
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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Case Decide Declare Executive Question Right War
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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Administered Control Enable First Frame Government Men Over
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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Devotion Industry Mainfrstly Morality Number People Priesthood
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made

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