Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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