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 MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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