In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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.
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