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.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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