Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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