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.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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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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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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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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The 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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