Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISON
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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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