The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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 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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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