The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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 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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Whenever 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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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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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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