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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 ...
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his po...
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Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superinte...
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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 sure...
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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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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 American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffus...
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...
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Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw light over the public mind which is the best security aga...
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge g...
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
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It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to eve...
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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
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In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not ...
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I cannot think of punishing him ... merely for coveting that liberty for which we have paid the price of so much blood, and have proclaimed so...
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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 ...
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At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level wit...
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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A universal and perpetual peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary...
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A knowledge of the Globe and its various inhabitants, however slight ... has a kindred effect with that of seeing them as travellers, which ne...
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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...
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Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.
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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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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. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
By James Madison