Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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