The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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 spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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