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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: March 16th, 1751

Died: June 28th, 1836

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