“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether by inheritance, self-appointment, or election, may justly be defined as the very definition of tyranny.”
- “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
- “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
- “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
- “A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
- “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
- “Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
- “The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
- “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
- “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
- “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
- “A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
- “The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.”
- “The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.”
- “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
- “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.”
- “A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”
- “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
- “The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.”
- “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”
- “Equal laws protecting equal rights—the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”
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