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.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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