“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
Alone“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
Alone“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
Alone“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.”
Best“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
Money“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“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
Home“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
War“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.”
Freedom“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
Home“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
Government“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.”
Home“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
Government“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.”
Happiness“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”
Government“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.”
Government“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”
Home“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
Knowledge“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
Men“To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.”
Alone“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“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.”
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