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.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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?
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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