The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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 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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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