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?
JAMES MADISONAs 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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the 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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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