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.
JAMES MADISONLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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