The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONAll that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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