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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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" 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. "

" Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

" 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. "

" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. "

" 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. "

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

" America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. "

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

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "

" By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. "

" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "

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

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

" 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? "

" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "

" 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. "

" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "

" All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. "

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

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

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

" 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. "

" Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 possessions. "

" 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. "