All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. -
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The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. -
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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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.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- 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.