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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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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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Edify Learn Liberty More Other Seasonable Spectacle
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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Account Advance Between Debt Former Indispensible Live Made State
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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.
JAMES MADISON

Cooperation Political Promotion Reconstruction Sincere Steadfast System
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 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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
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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Advantage Arm Being Citizen Country Government People Right Trust
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Done Generally Interest Power Wrong
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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Abuse Alone Chequered Press
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Continual Freedom Midst National Preserve Warfare
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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