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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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 should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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.
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