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" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "

" Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" 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. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. "

" I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "

" 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. "

" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "

" 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. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

" 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. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" 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. "

" The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. "

" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

" 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. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" 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. "

" If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "