Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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