“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.”
Communication“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.”
Government“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.”
Communication“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
War“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Power“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
Government“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.”
Power“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.”
Truth“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
Men“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
Freedom“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
Alone“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
Men“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.”
Government“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
Knowledge“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”
Science“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
Government“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
Best“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.”
War“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.”
Government“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.”
Trust“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.”
Government“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
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