The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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