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.
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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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 sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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