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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 ...
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 po...
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superinte...
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and sure...
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffus...
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...
Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw light over the public mind which is the best security aga...