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.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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