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 MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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.
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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 possessions.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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