The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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It 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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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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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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.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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