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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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