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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISON

Government Institute Object Person Property Protection Right
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
JAMES MADISON

Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Danger Extensive Federal Government Important Most Operation Time War
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISON

Country Journey Leasant Mild Pleasant Season
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Communication Free Man Opinion Property
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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Advantage Arm Being Citizen Country Government People Right Trust
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Big Common Philosophy Sense Word
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Charter Constitution Fountain Legimitate People Power
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Devotion Industry Mainfrstly Morality Number People Priesthood
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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Ascertain Education Expense Forward Meet Posses Public Talent Youth
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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Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Faculty First Government Object Protection
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Alarm Experiment First Liberty Right
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Ceaseless Church Country Dhore Forever Purpose Separation Soak Soil State Strifem
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
JAMES MADISON

Abuse Alone Chequered Press

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