Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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