The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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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 sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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