What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
JAMES MADISONThey 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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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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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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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