They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
JAMES MADISONEvery nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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