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 MADISONEach 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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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