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 MADISONAnd 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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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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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