Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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