The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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