Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISONWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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