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 MADISONA 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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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A 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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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