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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 gives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

" In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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