A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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