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 MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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