The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISONWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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