To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
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- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- 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.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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- 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.