Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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