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.
JAMES MADISON
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.
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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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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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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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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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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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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