The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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