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What 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?

James Madison

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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Charge Danger Home Liberty Loss Provision Rank Truth Universal
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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Ceaseless Church Country Dhore Forever Purpose Separation Soak Soil State Strifem
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Abate Assume Class Doubt Found Government Misery
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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Affair Calculate Loss Nation Neighbor Stability Sustain Systematic Wisdom
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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Danger Extensive Federal Government Important Most Operation Time War
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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Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Favourite Free Institution Learn Object Ought People
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Country Journey Leasant Mild Pleasant Season
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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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Duly Excess Power Prevail Property Respect Sort
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Come Country Enemy Fight Guise Land Oppression
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Alarm Experiment First Liberty Right
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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Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Better Circulation Confidence Money
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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Advantage Arm Being Citizen Country Government People Right Trust
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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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
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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Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together
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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Equal Man Property Right Said
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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Amde Avail Choice Law Little Men Own
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Commercial Communication Free Generally Shackles
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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Capacity Female Highest Manifest Mind Order People Study Sufficient
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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Case Decide Declare Executive Question Right War
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
JAMES MADISON

Criterion Gotten Majority Philosophic Suffrage Take Truth Ught

What 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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