Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONIn no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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