As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
From James Madison
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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.
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.
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.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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