The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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.
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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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.
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.
Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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?
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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.
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