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.
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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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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