Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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