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.
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'Every answer he President John Adams gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.'James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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.
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Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of the United States
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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