The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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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.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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