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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 heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

James Madison

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" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

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

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

" 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. "

" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. "

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

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

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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