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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to b

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

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

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Home
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – George Pataki

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. – George Washington

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If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer. – Rob Corddry

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