Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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