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.
JAMES MADISONKnowledge 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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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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