All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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