Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONAnd 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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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 should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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