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.
JAMES MADISONOf all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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All 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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
JAMES MADISON