If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true 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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