In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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