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.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the 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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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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