In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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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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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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