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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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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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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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