A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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 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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