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

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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.

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?

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.