Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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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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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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 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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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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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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