Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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