In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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