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 MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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