12/08/1813
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"Those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives."
"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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who me..."
"Every Republican in Congress, and more importantly, every Republican on the Supreme Court seems to believe that to honor a sentence written by James Madison in 1789, children must die."